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Games Village to be ready by 2009

Staff Reporter

DDA to spend Rs. 1,082 crores on the project

NEW DELHI: Delhi Development Authority would complete the development of the Commonwealth Games 2010 village and venues for table tennis, badminton, squash and cue sports by October 2009. For this it will spend a sum of Rs 1,082 crores, of which Rs 446 crores would be raised through government funding and the remaining through its own and private funding.

The final proposal to the effect was passed at a DDA meeting chaired by Lieutenant-Governor B.L. Joshi on Thursday. Under the proposal, besides the Games Village and the competition venues, DDA would also be responsible for provision of training venues for some events.

As per the plan there would be a Residential Zone which would have accommodation for 7,500 competitors and officials, a dining area, a polyclinic and resident centres.

The International Zone would comprise the main entry, logistics centre, accreditation centre, ceremonial plaza, retail facilities, media centre, cultural centres, transport centre, information centre, leisure and entertainment facilities.

Then in the Village Operation and Support Service functions such as waste collection, removal, delivery and storage facilities for food, linen, and fuel depot would be provided. The Transport Mall would provide transport services to athletes to and from the competition and training venues and the Training Areas at the Games Village would have an athletics track, swimming pool and fitness centre.

The Games Village would come up on a 63.5 hectare plot of land on the east bank of the Yamuna near Akshardham Village and of this 4.22 hectare would be taken up by Delhi Metro Rail Corporation for making a provision for its railway station, line and other facilities. Of this land, 11 hectares would be used for residential purpose, 5.5 hectares for commercial, 21 hectares for public and semi-public and 26 hectares for green area.

With the number of participants expected to be around 8,000, DDA has proposed a five-star and three budget hotels at the site along with nearly 900 residential units.

As for the competition venues, DDA would be constructing a table tennis stadium at Yamuna Sports Complex with a capacity for 5,000 spectators. For badminton and squash facilities for 5,000 spectators and 4,500 spectators respectively would be created at the Siri Fort Sports Complex. Then for cue sports of billiards and snooker, the existing stadium at Siri Fort Sports Complex would be refurbished once the event is approved of by the Commonwealth Games Federation.

Training facilities for swimming, badminton, lawn bowls and squash would also be provided at Siri Fort Sports Complex while those for swimming, gymnastics, rugby and table tennis would be provided at Yamuna Sports Complex.

DDA has stated that while the financial and environmental consultants have been appointed and the technical is being finalised, it would prepare the conceptual plan by September 2006 and the detailed plan by November 2006. Then the award of works would be done by April 2007.

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